The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-10
TAXES ON THE COUNTRY.
THE INTERNAL REVENUE COMMIs-
SIONER'S REPORT.

Total Receipts of $119,92o,523 From
All Sources During the Fiscal Year
Faded June 3o-The improvements
in the System Which the Commis-
sioner Recommends.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-Hon. Joseph S.
Miller, Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
submitted his annual report to the Secretary
of the Treasury 1t is printed document
of l6O pages, and gives full and detailed
statement of the operations of the internal
revenue service during the last fiscal year,
and also during the first quarter of the
present fiscal year. The total receipts from
all sources of internal revenue for the fiscal
year ended June 30 were Sis, 1920, ,523, as
compared with Sll6,902, 500 for the year
1886.
1t is estimated that the sum of S120,0O0,.
900 will be collected from the various
sources of internal revenue during the cur
rent fiscal year, provided no changes are
made in the rates of taxation now imposed
The total cost of collection for the past
fiscal year. including the salaries of officers,
was 81, ,065, l40, being about "a per cent. of
the amount collected. The cost during the
previous fiscal year was about 80 per cent.
of the collections
NEXT YEARS EXPENSES.
The estimated expenses for the next fiscal
year amount to 81, l25, $50.
The general condition Of the service is re-
ported to be good. Commissioner Miller
says the reduction Of the number of internal
revenue districts by the executive order Of
May last has very considerably les ened the
cost of collecting the internal revenue taxes,
and has not in any manner been detrimental
to the interest of taxpayers.
The whole number of grain distilers reg
istered during the last fiscal year was l, 100,
of which number $50 were operated, an
increase of twenty in the number reg
istered and nineteen in the number operated,
as compared with the previous year.
There were 1896 fruit distillers registered,
and 1926 operated, decrease of ,l15 in
the number registered and /, 149 in the num-
Der operated during the year.
TAXING PARTS OF A GALLON
Commissioner Miller renews his recon-
mendation of last year in regard to tho
taxation Of fractional parts of the gallon
of distilled spirits. He also urges legisla-
ton authorizing the establishment of special
bonded warehouses for the storage of bran
dy made from apples or peaches, or from
any fruit whose distillatfon may be au-
thorized. He also recommends that
the provisions of section 1855 of
the Revised Statutes be enlarged so
rs to authorize the Commissioner,
with the approval of the Secretary of the
Treasury, TO permit the distillation of other
fruits under the same provisions which now
govern the distillation of apples, peaches
and grapes Such brandy, he says, should
also be included in warehousing act above
recommended.
THE PRODUCTION.
80. o.. H..
produced and deposited in distillery ware
houses during the last fiscal year is less than
the production of the year 1885, by 2,5l2,-
7Sl gallons. The quantity of spirits, &c.
183, ,303 gallons, withdrawn and the tax
paid from distillery warehouses during the
past fiscal year is less than the quantity
withdrawn during the previous fiscal year
by 2,0l3, ,597 gallons.
The quantity of distilled spirits in the
United States, except what may be in Gus
toms bonded warehouses, ON Oct. /, 1887.
was l04a39, 1856 gallons this quantity being
distributed as follows: In distillery and
special bonded warehouses 81 SOC, ,377 gal.
Ions, in the hands of wholesale liquor deal
ers 14,6l4, $50 gallons, in the hands of re-
tail liquor dealers 2s,216,050 gallons.
AVERAGE STOCK OF RETAILERS.
In making the above computation the
average stock of each retail liquor dealer
in the United States is estimated at $50
gallons. The commissioner sets forth the
evils arising from the present method Of
treating re-imported spirits and recommends
l. That section $500 Of the Revised Statutes
be so amended as to exclude, as an article
subject to customs duty, all domestic spirits
returned TO this country, and to provide for
the collection of the internal revenue tax
due on such spirits as shown by the marks
and brands ON package at the time of the
removal of the spirits from the distiller's
warehouse, or, If this is deemed inadvisable,
2. That the section be amended 80 as TO
provide for the collection of interest on the
duty imposed on re-imported spirits, to be
computed from the date Of the withdrawal
of the spirits from the warehouse, or in case
the spirits were exported with the benefit of
drawback interest to date from the payment
of the drawback.
The aggregate amount of taxes collected
from tobacco during the year was S33,0lS,-
067. This amount includes the internal
revenue taxes paid by stamps on imported
manufactured tobacco, snuff, cigars and
cigarettes.
The export accounts show an increase in
manufactured tobacco of 548, ,061 pounds, in
the number of cigars exported of 423 $50,
and in the number Of cigarettes exported OF
1854, 100. The number Of cigars imported
during the fiscal year, ended June 30, was
Is, ,525, $50. The value of the manufactured
tobacco imported was S110, ,245
The act regulating the sale of oleomarga-
rine, says the commissioner, was in force
during the Last eight months of the year,
and the receipts under it aggregated
$723, ,948.